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The Highly Variable Wind from WD J005311, the Stellar Remnant of the Peculiar Galactic Supernova of 1181
C. Alexander Thomas, Peter Garnavich, Charlotte Wood +2
WD J005311 is the peculiar stellar remnant of the Galactic supernova from 1181, and appears to have been the merger of two white dwarfs. We present time-resolved spectroscopy of WD…
Four-Body Gravitational Microlensing Events Involving Both a Binary Lens and a Binary Source
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +31
We present detailed analyses of three anomalous microlensing events--KMT-2021-BLG-0209, KMT-2021-BLG-0901, and OGLE-2025-BLG-0356--identified from a systematic re-examination of KM…
Candidate Microlensing Brown Dwarfs in Binary Lens Systems from the 2023--2025 Observing Seasons
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +62
We present detailed light-curve analyses of ten binary-lens microlensing events observed during the 2023--2025 seasons and selected as candidates for hosting brown-dwarf companions…
Six binary brown dwarf candidates identified by microlensing
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Ian A. Bond +57
In this study, we analyze microlensing events from the 2023 and 2024 observing seasons to identify cases likely caused by binary systems composed of BDs. By applying criteria that…
KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another binary-lens binary-source microlensing event
Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Jennifer C. Yee +40
We present the analysis of a microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-0086 of which the overall light curve is not described by a binary-lens single-source (2L1S) model, which suggests the…
Analyses of anomalous lensing events detected from the UKIRT microlensing survey
Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +61
The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) microlensing survey was conducted over four years, from 2016 to 2019, with the goal of serving as a precursor to future near-infrared…
KMT-2021-BLG-0284, KMT-2022-BLG-2480, and KMT-2024-BLG-0412: Three microlensing events involving two lens masses and two source stars
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +59
We carried out a project involving the systematic analysis of microlensing data from the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network survey. The aim of this project is to identify lensing…
Microlensing brown-dwarf companions in binaries detected during the 2022 and 2023 seasons
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrzej Udalski +63
Building on previous works to construct a homogeneous sample of brown dwarfs in binary systems, we investigate microlensing events detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Netw…
OGLE-2018-BLG-0971, MOA-2023-BLG-065, and OGLE-2023-BLG-0136: Microlensing events with prominent orbital effects
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +60
We undertake a project to reexamine microlensing data gathered from high-cadence surveys. The aim of the project is to reinvestigate lensing events with light curves exhibiting int…
Brown dwarf companions in binaries detected from the 2021 season high-cadence microlensing surveys
Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Ian A. Bond +45
As a part of the project aiming to build a homogeneous sample of binary-lens (2L1S) events containing brown-dwarf (BD) companions, we investigate the 2021 season microlensing data…
Probable brown dwarf companions detected in binary microlensing events during the 2018-2020 seasons of the KMTNet survey
Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Doeon Kim +48
We inspect the microlensing data of the KMTNet survey collected during the 2018--2020 seasons in order to find lensing events produced by binaries with brown-dwarf companions. In o…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1038: A Possible Brown-dwarf Binary Revealed by Spitzer Microlensing Parallax
Amber Malpas, Michael D. Albrow, Jennifer C. Yee +41
We report the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1038, observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, Korean Microlensing Telescope Network, and Spitzer telesc…
KMT-2021-BLG-1122L: The first microlensing triple stellar system
Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould +19
We systematically inspect the microlensing data acquired by the KMTNet survey during the previous seasons in order to find anomalous lensing events for which the anomalies in the l…
OGLE-2018-BLG-0584 and KMT-2018-BLG-2119: two microlensing events with two lens masses and two source stars
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Youn Kil Jung +34
We conduct a systematic investigation of the microlensing data collected during the previous observation seasons for the purpose of reanalyzing anomalous lensing events with no sug…
Brown-dwarf companions in microlensing binaries detected during the 2016--2018 seasons
Cheongho Han, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin +60
With the aim of finding microlensing binaries containing brown-dwarf (BD) companions, we investigate the microlensing survey data collected during the 2016--2018 seasons. For this…
Precision measurement of a brown dwarf mass in a binary system in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0033/MOA-2019-BLG-035
A. Herald, A. Udalski, V. Bozza +89
Context. Brown dwarfs are poorly understood transition objects between stars and planets, with several competing mechanisms having been proposed for their formation. Mass measureme…
An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing
Kailash C. Sahu, Jay Anderson, Stefano Casertano +90
We report the first unambiguous detection and mass measurement of an isolated stellar-mass black hole (BH). We used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to carry out precise astrometry…
MagAO observations of the binary microlens OGLE-2014-BLG-1050 prefer the higher-mass solution
Xiaojia Xie, Subo Dong, Wei Zhu +9
We report adaptive-optics (AO) follow-up imaging of OGLE-2014-BLG-1050, which is the second binary microlensing event with space-based parallax measurements. The degeneracy in micr…
Using Source Proper Motion to Validate Terrestrial Parallax: OGLE-2019-BLG-1058
In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Kyu-Ha Hwang +30
We show that because the conditions for producing terrestrial microlens parallax (TPRX; i.e., a nearby disk lens) will also tend to produce a large lens-source relative proper moti…
KMT-2019-BLG-0797: binary-lensing event occurring on a binary stellar system
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +18
We analyze the microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-0797. The light curve of the event exhibits two anomalous features from a single-lens single-source model, and we aim to reveal the n…
Rapid Variability in the Wind from the White Dwarf Merger Candidate J005311
P. Garnavich, C. Littlefield, R. Pogge +1
We analyze time-series spectroscopy of the white dwarf merger candidate J005311 and confirm the unique nature of its optical spectrum. We detect an additional broad emission featur…
OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet With A Bright, Host
Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski +54
We report the discovery of a planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1269, with planet-host mass ratio , i.e., times smaller than the Jupiter/Su…
Candidate Brown-dwarf Microlensing Events with Very Short Timescales and Small Angular Einstein Radii
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +62
Short-timescale microlensing events are likely to be produced by substellar brown dwarfs (BDs), but it is difficult to securely identify BD lenses based on only event timescales $t…
Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge
Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Tianshu Wang +90
We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-sour…